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CMYK vs RGB Color
If you weren’t born in the year 2000 or later and acronym-overloads tend to make your head spin, you may be interested in a breakdown of two popular abbreviated terms in the printing world: CMYK and RGB.
Both CMYK and RGB are acronyms that stand for modes of color use in design and in printing. CMYK stands for Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black (the people who came up with the acronym used “K” instead of “B” for black to avoid confusion with the “B” for blue in RGB), whereas RGB represents Red, Green, and ...
How Postcards Can Help Realtors
Just get your real estate license? Congratulations, so did just about everyone else we know! We’re just kidding --- real estate can be a very profitable field to work in, but, as you undoubtedly know, having a license is not a guarantee to overnight success. Real estate is one of those fields where you make your own destiny, and while we can’t predict exactly what that destiny will look like, we can guarantee you one thing: If you don’t make any noise about yourself and let people know you’re the new realty ...
Design Valentine’s Day Business Cards and Flyers They’ll LOVE
Whether you look to Valentine’s Day as a once-a-year opportunity to celebrate romance, or you think of it as a nagging reminder of the loneliness of the world, there is no debate about one thing – it’s definitely an excellent opportunity to make money. From the five-year-old looking to wow his kindergarten classmates with the very best candies and cardboard Valentine’s Day cards, to the shy guy-next-door desperate to finally make his affections known, everyone is eager to fork over their hard-earned salary (or ...
Foil Printing
If your recent print advertisements, flyers, postcards, business cards, or other printed works seem to “lack luster” recently, you may consider trying an innovative and attractive new printing style to amp up the appeal of your marketing campaigns. Foil printing is a technique that brings the flash of precious metals to your printed materials, without your having to dish out a lot of your hard-earned coin to get the job done.
It may not come as a surprise that foil printing techniques utilize, yes, foil, in ...
Find a Printer
Anyone who knows how to touch a computer keyboard has the capacity to find a good printer these days. There are a host of print companies at your disposal, whether you live in Miami Beach, Florida or Juno, Alaska. Albernett, Iowa? Yes, we have you covered too, even though your population is only 548 (547 after little Susy-Ann Miller goes off to college next week!). No, in this wonderful age of the internet, there is a printer ready to serve you wherever you are, at the push of a button.
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Tips for Banner Design and Printing
Unless you’re trying to run some secretive underground nightclub, your business needs some kind of marking to let potential guests know it’s there. In choosing how to broadcast your name to the public, there are a few different options. You can have a custom sign painted or printed. These can cost a pretty penny, and they’re often very heavy and immobile – they’ll generally be affixed to the wall on the outside of your establishment. This is great if you have a big business that’s completely stationary. But if ...
Flyers and Brochures to Promote During Miami’s Wine & Food Festival
It’s already that time of year again! The Miami Wine and Food Festival is fast approaching, and it’s time to start thinking about how to use this ever-growing festival to your business’s advantage – whether you’re in the food biz or not! The dates on the WFF this year are April 17 to 20, so now is the perfect time to begin preparing your business for success at the fest – specifically, it’s a great time to begin designing flyers and brochures to let the influx of tourists and visitors know what your business ...
Picking a Printing Company
All across the United States – in Miami, Los Angeles, Washington D.C., San Antonio, Las Vegas, Chicago, New York and beyond – people need to print things. On an everyday basis, many people need to print a few documents for record keeping or the like. A little less frequently, people find themselves in need of thousands of pieces of printed materials – be them business cards, flyers, posters, postcards, direct mail marketing materials, brochures or booklets. And then they’re stuck trying to find the answer to ...
Foil Stamped Business Cards with Silk Lamination
It doesn’t matter how high your IQ is. Everyone – smart, dumb, young, and old – likes shiny things. As humans, our eyes just gravitate toward light, and there’s no exception when it comes to business cards that have a little flash.
Foil stamped business cards are quite literally flashy. The foil stamping process is completely different from metallic ink printing, and the innovative procedure makes it much more affordable as a premium business card printing option.
In fact, foil stamping doesn’t use any ink ...
Event Flyer Printing
So you’re having an event, and you’re so excited about it, you want to shout it from the rooftops. But no matter how excited you are, trust us, there is no worse way to attract people to your party than to shout from a roof like a deranged lunatic. Instead, consider a tried and true method of letting people know you’re having a shindig. No, we don’t mean that you should become a wandering singing minstrel. Just print a flyer for chrissake!
If printing an event flyer sounds like a good idea to you, you will be ...
Flyer Printing in Miami
Whether you’re a visitor, a resident, or a person who has heard stories but never set foot in the town, you probably won’t be surprised to hear that Miami is a city that needs flyers. Miami is a place where things happen, and the people who make these things happen need a go-to source to print flyers to let people know what’s going on. Especially in a city like Miami that has a high tourist population, flyer printing is an essential method of letting people know where to go, what to try, and what to buy. Think ...
What Makes a Good Printing Company
There have definitely never been so many options before when it comes to finding a good printing company. All of them have their specialties, and many of them have their weak spots. But what is it that sets one apart from the others? If you’ve never really worked with a printing company before, or if you’ve always worked with the very same printing company, it can be hard to know what to look for. Having worked in the printing business for years, we feel that we’re qualified to point out the basics as far as ...
